I may enjoy having my kids home - but, truth be told, I DO get a lot more done while they are at school! This week I made a list pf projects that have been waiting for me all summer. They range from yucky cleaning jobs, like washing the windows and scrubbing light fixtures, to fun jobs like getting photos printed and put into albums. (Yes, I still print photos.)
I started with one I have been looking forward to. . .
Last winter when my heart was aching to have Krissy home again, I found the big worded piece at Hobby Lobby. I rang true with my heart cry, and it matched her room to boot. I snatched it up, and immediately knew what I wanted to do around it.
You see, when I was a kid one of my favorite things to do at my grandparent's home was look at old photos. My Grandma Flach had the senior portraits of all her children hung on a wall in one of the bedrooms. (The green room!) I thought it was so neat to look at my dad, aunt and uncles and imagine what they were like as teens. It was always so funny to see how they had changed and to note which of the cousins resembled one of them.
So.... once again I was inspired by my grandma, and decided to hang the baby pictures of all of our kids and grandkids around this sign. It was a bit of a project getting the baby photos of the oldest kids scanned (because they were large) and then printed in black and white - but I LOVE how the wall turned out!
I finally figured out way to have all my babies in the same place!
I can't wait to watch Wyatt and Mataya and all the little ones that are yet to come peaking at these photos, trying to guess which baby is which. (I also wonder if Joshua will forever be tho only one with brown skin. I'm still praying that if it is His will, God will send us more brown babies.)
And I wonder how many more baby photos I will add to this wall in my lifetime. I adore babies, and the way I figure it, with the age span of our children there should almost always be a baby around.
Oh my sweet babies, it is so true!
Loved you yesterday
Love you still
Always have, Always will
(Can you guess which baby is which?!?)
